How to add "..." to multiple lines

Hi,

I think I have a simple question. I pasted a large number of 3D points into an mfile. There are N >10000 points and each is on a separate line i.e.

 1 2 3
 4 5 6
 7 8 9
 ...

I want to assign the whole mess to one 3Nx1 vector. Is there an easier way to do this than putting [] around it and ... at the end of each line? That is, is there a way to tell Matlab to ignore line breaks for a section (and say replace them with tabs)? Or another creative solution?

Thanks. It seems a little silly, but I'd love to avoid spending my afternoon pasting "..."s...

-greg

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

There is a better way. I assume you pasted the data so the data has multiple lines. You only need to add one "[" at the beginning of the first line and add one "]" at the end of the last line to make it a matrix. Then you can reshape it to a vector.

a=[1 2 3
    4 5 6
    7 8 9];

b=a';
b=b(:)

[Greg]

Ah! Thanks. I had no idea you don't need the ";..." when writing matrices on multiple lines. That is fantastic.